Outposts are NOT Illegal or, Government Kept Even Towns Inside “Green-line” in Limbo for Decades …

Report Shows: Outposts are Not Illegal

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As the gov’t prepares to destroy what it calls “unauthorized” outposts, the Shomron Regional Council presents evidence that the outposts are no more “unauthorized” than many other Israeli towns.

… The State Comptroller’s report of 2005 and many other sources, shows that the outposts were built in the same manner as many towns in Israel over the years.

… A 1999 Knesset speech by then-MK Ariel Sharon explaining the rationale governing the construction of the outposts. Ironically, it was Sharon, as Prime Minister, who later asked for and accepted Sasson’s report against the outposts.

Sharon told the Knesset, “Why did the government, at the time, decide to establish outposts on the hilltops? Was it just a whim, or a way of outsmarting someone? Not at all. The hilltop outposts were designed to enable the Jewish communities that were built by the Alignment [Labor] and Likud governments ever since the Six Day War, in areas that were designed to be security areas in our control under any agreement, to live in security, even while the diplomatic process continues.

“The very decision to evacuate outposts, to the loud applause of the Palestinians… without ever seriously considering what the purpose of these outposts is, and why they were built, and how they would contribute to a decrease in friction in the future and to the creation of a better atmosphere for the continuation of the process – this is a reason why the government deserves to be toppled… It is imperative that we connect these communities with emergency roads to main roads that will always remain in our control, such as connecting Elon Moreh, Itamar, and the Shilo bloc communities to the Alon Highway to their east, which will always remain under our control…”